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• boat anchor n. [common; from ham radio] 1. Like doorstop but more severe
  implies that the offending hardware is irreversibly dead or useless....
• doorstop: n. Used to describe equipment that is non-functional and halfway expected to remain so, especially obsolete equipment kept around for political reasons or ostensibly as a backup.
  When we get another Wyse-50 in here, that ADM 3 will turn into a doorstop....
• doorstop n. Used to describe equipment that is non-functional and halfway expected to remain so, especially obsolete equipment kept around for political reasons or ostensibly as a backup.
  When we get another Wyse-50 in here, that ADM 3 will turn into a doorstop....
• bum 1. vt. To make highly efficient, either in time or space, often at the expense of clarity.
  I managed to bum three more instructions out of that code....
• fry: 1. vi. To fail. Said especially of smoke-producing hardware failures.
  More generally, to become non-working. Usage: never said of software, only of hardware and humans....
• hog: n.,vt. 1. Favored term to describe programs or hardware that seem to eat far more than their share of a system's resources, esp.
  hose which noticeably degrade interactive response....
• fry 1. vi. To fail. Said especially of smoke-producing hardware failures.
  More generally, to become non-working. Usage: never said of software, only of hardware and humans....
• bum: 1. vt. To make highly efficient, either in time or space, often at the expense of clarity.
  I managed to bum three more instructions out of that code....
• dead: adj. 1. Non-functional; {down}; {crash}ed. Especially used of hardware.
  2. At XEROX PARC, software that is working but not undergoing continued development and support....